Islamic Philosophy Theory and Practice in Education

Education enables man to live in the contemporary society
successfully by giving him systematic intellectual and moral instruction
and training. His knowledge, abilities, character, mental faculties etc. are
developed through a well-planned process of education.
Unprecedented changes have taken place in all areas of modern
education, especially in terms of restatement of its aims, restructuring of
its curricula, re-scheduling of teaching-learning processes, re-consideration
of the socio-economic status of the teacher, re-definition of the value
system etc. Modern treatises on education depict this changing trends.
For a long time, the shaping and development of character of the child
was considered one of the chief objectives of education. Now-a-days its
aim has been re-stated in economic terms as the investment in human
resource development which, of course, includes the development of
character and inculcation of permanent values in individuals. This
tendency in education is indicative of the continuous growth of education
as a science.
Very often in the present context, the word 'modern' implies the
Western system of education of modern times. The whole exercise of
education revolves round the processes of learning and teaching which
have undergone a continuous evolution.